open-ui.org

tl;dr When browsers start to adapt proposals from Open UI, it might not be necessary to use any 3rd...

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There are two ways a logout in SAML can happen: Service Provider (SP) initiated and Identity Provider (IDP) initiated logout...

Note Using rem only ever makes sense when the root font size is dynamic, i.e. you leave control to the...

tl;dr Prefer request specs over end-to-end tests (Capybara) to joyfully test file downloads! Why? Testing file downloads

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10.0.0 2024-03-07 Compatible changes console command: You can now globally disable the IRB multiline feature by setting irb...

You can chain multiple Capybara matchers on the page or any element: expect(page) .to have_content('Example Course')

I recently noticed a new kind of flaky tests on the slow free tier GitHub Action runners: Integration tests were...

Any form fields where users enter numbers should be an . Numeric inputs have several benefits over : On mobile or tablet...

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Usually our code lives on GitLab, therefore our documentation for CI testing is extensive in this environment. If you are...

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whattrainisitnow.com

The linked table shows the support lifecycle for Firefox Extended Support Releases (ESR) which we sometimes need to support for...

tl;dr We recommend configuring Selenium's unhandled prompt behavior to { default: 'ignore' } with the monkey patch below.

A Rails script lives in lib/scripts and is run with bin/rails runner lib/scripts/.... They are a simple tool to perform...

87.140.79.42 - - [23/Jan/2024:09:00:46 +0100] "GET /monitoring/pings/ HTTP/1.1" 200 814 "-" "Ruby" 87.140.79.42 - - [23/Jan/2024:09:00:46 +0100] "GET...

I, [2024-01-21T06:22:17.484221 #2698200] INFO -- : [4cdad7a4-8617-4bc9-84e9-c40364eea2e4] test

github.com

There are a few tools to combat the dreaded n+1 queries. The bullet gem notifies you of missing eager...

sitepoint.com

Multiply by 1x the unit: $number = 13 $length = $number * 1px // => 13px Removing a unit

Ruby methods which load from a Yaml file, like YAML.safe_load or YAML.safe_load_file, support passing freeze: true to...

Here are some hints on best practices to maintain your tasks in larger projects. Rake Tasks vs. Scripts

You can use the config.x configuration in combination with config_for to configure global settings for your Rails 4.2+ application...

edgeapi.rubyonrails.org

The linked article suggests an interesting way to speed up tests of Rails + Postgres apps: PostgreSQL allows the creation of...

Getting an entire test suite green can be a tedious task which involves frequent switches between the CLI that is...

This Capistrano task runs a command on all servers. bundle exec cap production app:run cmd='zgrep -P "..." RAILS_ROOT/log/production.log...

In the Gitlab settings the flag Auto-cancel redundant pipelines is enabled by default. This auto-cancels jobs that have...

makandracards.com

A general overview about why and how we migrate can be found under Migrating from Elasticsearch to Opensearch